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"Yes," I said, "but how and to what extent?" "It is absurd to try to enlist him in our cause," said Thurnock. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 38, Sentence #34)

His searches are for show. Can he really not suspect that it anchors before him in the harbor of Sybaris? Is he not a patron of the tavern of Glaukos, The Living Island? Does he not game, and suspiciously successfully, as does Archelaos, at The House of the Golden Urt? Does he not profit, as does his colleague, Archelaos, from multiple taxes, from arbitrary levies, from demanded licenses, from various schemes, and frauds, in Sybaris?" "He has ships and we have not," I said, "only two". "He is in league with Archelaos," said Thurnock. "Yes," I said, "but how and to what extent?" "It is absurd to try to enlist him in our cause," said Thurnock. "If one has no ship," I said, "one will seize at a plank in the sea". "But," said Thurnock, "there is no plank in this sea". "We do not know that," I said. - (Avengers of Gor)